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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.
Calvin Coolidgeverified·To the State Senate on Being Elected Its President, in Have Faith in Massachusetts·January 7, 1914
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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If I associate not with these people,-- with mankind,-- with whom shall I associate?
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a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
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Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.
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Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
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In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations and require justice from them in return.
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The real limit to be observed in friendship is this: the characters of two friends must be stainless.
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it was the virtue of the man that I loved, and that has not suffered death
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freedom in speech is friendly and has weight, but reproach is selfish and little
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we ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine, that will save and preserve the life of the patient
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The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.
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Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
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Before those who loved him, his memory shines like a reproach; they honour him for silent lessons; they cherish his example; and in what remains before them of their toil, fear to be unworthy of the dead.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
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I looked in your cup to see if you had enough. You looked in mine to check if I had more than you. That difference says everything. We are not the same.
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Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.